Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009224130ISBN-10:1009224131UPC:9781009224130Book Category:Literary Criticism, LawBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SCTS6HG9A2
The law underwent significant changes in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial society. This volume reveals how legal developments of the period shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing. Reading canonical and lesserknown texts from the Restoration to the Romantic era, the chapters explore literary engagements with libel law, plague law, marriage law, naturalization law, the poor laws, the law of slavery and abolition, and the practice of common-law decision-making. The volume also considers the language and form of legal treatises and judicial decisions, as well as recent appropriations of the period's literature and legal norms by the Christian right. Through these varied case studies, the volume deepens our knowledge of law and literature's mutual entanglements in the long eighteenth century while shedding light on legal and ethical questions that remain of concern to this day.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009224130ISBN-10:1009224131UPC:9781009224130Book Category:Literary Criticism, LawBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SCTS6HG9A2
Ganz, Melissa J.: - Melissa J. Ganz is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. She is the author of Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment (2019), winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize. Her essays on legal and ethical dimensions of British fiction have appeared in journals including Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Review of English Studies, and ELH, as well as in several edited collections. She holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a PhD in English literature from Yale University.
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The law underwent significant changes in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial society. This volume reveals how legal developments of the period shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing. Reading canonical and lesserknown texts from the Restoration to the Romantic era, the chapters explore literary engagements with libel law, plague law, marriage law, naturalization law, the poor laws, the law of slavery and abolition, and the practice of common-law decision-making. The volume also considers the language and form of legal treatises and judicial decisions, as well as recent appropriations of the period's literature and legal norms by the Christian right. Through these varied case studies, the volume deepens our knowledge of law and literature's mutual entanglements in the long eighteenth century while shedding light on legal and ethical questions that remain of concern to this day.
Ganz, Melissa J.: - Melissa J. Ganz is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. She is the author of Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment (2019), winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize. Her essays on legal and ethical dimensions of British fiction have appeared in journals including Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Review of English Studies, and ELH, as well as in several edited collections. She holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a PhD in English literature from Yale University.
